The Delta independent., 1887-05-03
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES.

A dispatch from Rome says DR.. Nc
Glynn has again informed the Vatican that
he refuses to go to Rome.
Natural gas has been struck in Otta-
wa, Kansas, at depth of five hundred feet.
The pressure was too strong for measure
ment.
Six Knights of Labor, who are ac<
cused of conspiracy in ordering strike in
shoe factory in New York, have been held
for trial.
Emanuel De Freitas, II years old,
jumped from the Brooklyn bridge safely,
and was sent to prison for three months for
doing it
A hurricane on the coast of Western
Australia destroyed 400 boats belonging
to the pearl fishery fleet and $50 persons
perished.
A disease locally known as the black
fever, accompanied by diphtheria,is ravag-
ing the vicinity of Mount Carbon. Province
of Quebec.
Six men were killed and eighteen
were injured in collision on the Cascade
branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad
near Chelum.
The Cleveland, Ohio, police believe
they have captured the murderer of Maggie
Mccarthy. The circumstantial evidence
against him is strong.
The eviction Of settlers on the Win
nebago and Crow Creek reservations has
begun. The troops will remain three weeks
after their work is ended.
1t is reported from the City of Mexi-
co that party of Americans have re-dis-
covered the lost silver mines in Sonora
whose location was lost in 17sS.
Sort,e turbulent Kiowa Indians sought
to make trouble in the Indian Territory and
troops were summoned to quiet them which
they did by arresting number.
The English Foreign Office has adj
does not think that the Schnaebele's affair
will lead to prolonged difficulty.
The officers who are pursuing the
South Pacific train-robbers are confident of
their capture, but they ask the postoffice
authorities to increase the reward.
II is understood that Germany will
surrender Schnaebeles to France with the
proriso that he be kept away from the from
tier, where he ws3 5,aking trouble.
DR.. Parker's London friends fear
that Brooklyn will be too warm for him in
June and they have induced him to post
pone the Beecher eulogy until October.
A special train on the Rock Island
road, containing the Kansas railway asses
| sors and railway officials, was ditched near
Horton, Kansas, and the party was badly
bruised.
The California Central Railroad
Company has been formed by the consoli-
dation of the Santa Fe's eight branches in
that State and a full board of officers have
been elected.
The English customs officials are
cause il is rumored that shipments have
been made from San Francisco to reach En-
gland via China.
Secretary Bayard has interested him.
self in movement being made by Ameri-
| cans TO secure the erection of monument
to ST. Paul at his birthplace, the City OF
Tarsus in Cilicia-
DIR. W. T. Northrup of Scioto coun-
ty, Ohio, an active champion of local op-
| ton, was wayiaid and shot dead by num-
Der of saloon-men, who are under arrest and
in danger Of lynching.
Evidence accumulates that Simmons.
the lessee of the Hotel Del Monte, knows
hn i-i, nf ftr, x-bi inb
burned that house. He is q, 900 short in his
accounts and under arrest
The City of Mexico had bull-iight
by electric light and the glare infuriated
the animals and made matters interesting.
-Four horses were killed and matadors and
picadors suffered severely.
Katie Fisher, sixteen years old, was
found clinging to pile underneath dock
in New York. She said she had been as
saulted and thrown into the river, but be-
! ing able to swim she saved herself from
drowning.
Mrs. Christina Openhoff visited Mrs.
en-, neighbor, at Fontanet, nine miles
east OF Terre Haute, and while there fooled
with revolver. The weapon went of, the
i phlt stIlkluk iuicll Uiil tit atNulntIl.
She would have become a mother in few
days. The child was born dead with bull
let-hole through its head and the mother is
dying.
The Pittsburg Post says gigantic
scheme, by which the entire river coal indus
try from the Monongahela to New Orleans
will be controlled by one powerful syndi-
cate, is being considered by all the opera.
tors between these points. At recent
meeting held in that city it was decided
that such combination was necessary for
self-protection, and the new organization
| will be formed within the next few week.
Governor Ross, of New Mexico. has
signed the death-warrants Of Anderson and
Baker, two of the four condemned mur-
derers. Anderson will be executed at So
corro and Baker at Springer next Friday
Thomasson and O'Donnell have been
respited for two weeks. until the Governor
can consider their case. A very strong eff
fort has been made to have Thomasson's
sentence Of death committed to life impris-
onment
Thousands Of people have been i'm
prisoned in their homes in Montreal by the